By Genders, Countable nouns

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Most native speakers (except for linguists and teachers of ESL) never think about "countable" and "uncountable" nouns. I had never heard those terms until I started tutoring ESL students (I was a volunteer; I never had formal training to teach.) A young child might make the mistake of saying...

Milky wrote:Depending on the context it could be part of a description, however imprecise, of women in general - generic qualities of the gender called "woman". Or, it could be describing a man who has such characteristics. Not sure if it would be used to desribe anything else.Good! So if a...

Hi, I have one more question on No. 2, what would you do if the list contains a list of countable nouns with a mix of vowel initial sounds and consonant initial sounds and thus, engender a possible article consistency problem? Could I just put the article "a" in front of the word "planner" and...

Hi, Thank you for the response/explanation. I have one more question on No. 2, what would you do if the list contains a list of countable nouns with a mix of vowel initial sounds and consonent initial sounds and thus, engender a possible article consistency problem? I got this list from...

1. Why are there no articles in front of the words "legislature" and "parliament"? A majority is the difference between the number of votes or seats in parliament and legislature that the winner gets in an election, and the number ... 2. When you are listing things after a colon, are you...

Anonymous wrote:I came upon a sentence with this phrase and have been wondering why the writer didn't place any articles in front of the ones italicized when the dictionary said they are countables. I thought countables must have articles regardless of the grammatical situations they are in. Was...